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In Western economies, the concrete design of fiscal federalism is determined by the status the federation grants to regionally comparable economic and social conditions, and to what extent this status is anchored in the constitution. If the political and social acceptance of regional differences...
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A recent literature has used variation just around deterministic legislative population thresholds to identify the causal effects of institutional changes. This paper reviews the use of regression discontinuity designs using such population thresholds. Our concern involves three arguments: (1)...
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The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of …
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This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the … roots underlying the conflict in the Basque Country. We show that at the municipality level, linguistic polarization reduces … the level of conflict. This finding is robust to various ways of measuring linguistic and ideological polarization and the …
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This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two...
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an … important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have …, however, always focused strongly on the supply-side effects, whereas this paper examines the influence of conflict on the …
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This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...
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The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
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bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find compelling evidence that terrorist actions reduce the volume of trade; a doubling in the number...
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